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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the only celebrity that comes to visit Hugo's squadron during the war?
2. Which famous poet does Hugo name as having the notion of the mask during the writing of a poem?
3. What does Hugo call the tearing down of buildings, the building of new housing, etc., as being one problem for modern poets?
4. What does Hugo say that Auden believes is the nemesis of American writers?
5. Who does Hugo say proposes that all literary teachers take creative writing?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hugo describe teaching the student in a class who is not necessarily good at writing?
2. Who is Bob Mills and what task is he assigned to perform?
3. What is the curse of creative writing courses as seen by Hugo at universities?
4. What does Hugo see as the inherent flaw in the hiring of some writing teachers?
5. What does Hugo say a poet should do when a poem is finished?
6. How is it that Hugo and his wife are able to go to Italy?
7. What is the conclusion Hugo makes regarding the Ph.D. system in literature?
8. Why does Hugo say that Cerignola has a bad reputation in Italy?
9. How does Hugo feel about the British colonel and why?
10. Describe Hugo's analogy of the mask and how it changes as the poet progresses.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the advantages pointed out by Hugo of making up the rules as the poet goes along? What should making up rules do for the poet?
Essay Topic 2
How does Hugo feel about the relationship to reading and writing? How does this relationship affect the literary and creative writing departments at universities? Is this relationship considered a valid one by Hugo?
Essay Topic 3
What are Hugo's thoughts on having a stance in writing a poem? What examples does he give regarding stance and how does the presence or absence of a stance determine the poem's effectiveness?
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